The Brotherhood of Rudastan is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Grandmaster with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.921 billion Rudastanis are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Lair. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Rudastani economy, worth 775 trillion golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 157,662 golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products, urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, the nation's leader is normally just referred to as "snuggle-wuggle-huggy-bear", and it is technically inaccurate to call the dead 'worm food'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rudastan's national animal is the crow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Rudastan is ranked 5,416^th in the world and 8^th in The Brotherhood of Malice for Lowest Crime Rates, with 113.92 law-abiding acts per hour.